Pump and Dump: The Wolf of Wall Street Marko Bauer October 2014 Feature Articles The Wolf of Wall Street (Martin Scorsese, 2013) is a repulsive affair. A hybrid of Wall Street (Oliver Stone, 1987) and American Pie (Chris and Paul Weitz, 1999) it comes short of the former as well as the latt...
Thank God We Don’t Have a Pope: Habemus Papam, Moretti’s Apocalypse Marko Bauer March 2013 Feature Articles “As nihilism becomes more and more the norm, the symbols of emptiness spread much more terror than those of power do.” – Ernst Jünger One nearly misses Habemus Papam (We Have a Pope, 2011) for the reason abse...
Pure West: Drive, nostalgia for postmodernism Marko Bauer July 2012 Feature Articles It is a one way street and there, Walter Benjamin says: “What, in the end, makes advertisements so superior to criticism? Not what the moving red neon sign says – but the fiery pool reflecting it in the aspha...
“Even God Was Overcome by Laziness”: An interview with Aleksandr Sokurov Marko Bauer December 2011 Feature Articles A true poet of the cinema, the director of, amongst others, Russian Ark and The Sun, talks philosophy, religion, aesthetics and the Russian soul.
Son of Atlantis: prologues and epilogues with Sokurov Marko Bauer, Luka Umek and Dasa Cerar December 2011 Feature Articles Using interview footage of Sokurov and combining it with other elements, the filmmakers produce a contemplative video-essay on the director.
Like Tears in… Brain Marko Bauer December 2011 Feature Articles “The brain is the flesh.” Using ‘Artaud-Deleuze’ as a guide, Marko Bauer traverses the cerebral territory of Gaspar Noé’s film. Enter at your peril.
“Films are vulgar. And this vulgarity, I love it”: An Interview with Arnaud Desplechin Marko Bauer October 2010 Feature Articles In this free-form interview the director of A Christmas Tale, King and Queens, amongst others, discusses everything from Truffaut and Godard, Stanley Cavell and disaster movies, Nietzsche and Italo Calvino, Jean Gabin and hip-hop, and more.
